Profess (v. i.) To take a profession upon one's self by a public declaration; to confess.
Profess (v. i.) To declare friendship.
Provessel (a.) Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, a professed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian.
Professedly (adv.) By profession.
Profession (v.) The act of professing or claiming; open declaration; public avowal or acknowledgment; as, professions of friendship; a profession of faith.
Profession (v.) That which one professed; a declaration; an avowal; a claim; as, his professions are insincere.
Profession (v.) That of which one professed knowledge; the occupation, if not mechanical, agricultural, or the like, to which one devotes one's self; the business which one professes to understand, and to follow for subsistence; calling; vocation; employment; as, the profession of arms; the profession of a clergyman, lawyer, or physician; the profession of lecturer on chemistry.
Profession (v.) The collective body of persons engaged in a calling; as, the profession distrust him.
Profession (v.) The act of entering, or becoming a member of, a religious order.
Professional (a.) Of or pertaining to a profession, or calling; conforming to the rules or standards of a profession; following a profession; as, professional knowledge; professional conduct.
Professional (a.) Engaged in by professionals; as, a professional race; -- opposed to amateur.
Professional (n.) A person who prosecutes anything professionally, or for a livelihood, and not in the character of an amateur; a professional worker.
Professionalism (n.) The following of a profession, sport, etc., as an occupation; -- opposed to amateurism.
Professionalist (n.) professional person.
Professionally (adv.) In a professional manner or capacity; by profession or calling; in the exercise of one's profession; one employed professionally.
Professor (n.) One who professed, or makes open declaration of, his sentiments or opinions; especially, one who makes a public avowal of his belief in the Scriptures and his faith in Christ, and thus unites himself to the visible church.
Professor (n.) One who professed, or publicly teaches, any science or branch of learning; especially, an officer in a university, college, or other seminary, whose business it is to read lectures, or instruct students, in a particular branch of learning; as a professor of theology, of botany, of mathematics, or of political economy.
Professorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a professor; as, the professional chair; professional interest.
Professorialism (n.) The character, manners, or habits of a professor.
Professoriat (n.) See Professoriate.
Professoriate (n.) The body of professors, or the professorial staff, in a university or college.
Professoriate (n.) A professorship.
Professorship (n.) The office or position of a professor, or public teacher.
Professory (a.) Of or pertaining to a professor; professorial.
Proffered (imp. & p. p.) of Proffer
Proffering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Proffer
Proffer (v. t.) To offer for acceptance; to propose to give; to make a tender of; as, to proffer a gift; to proffer services; to proffer friendship.
Proffer (v. t.) To essay or attempt of one's own accord; to undertake, or propose to undertake.
Proffer (n.) An offer made; something proposed for acceptance by another; a tender; as, proffers of peace or friendship.
Proffer (n.) Essay; attempt.
Profferer (n.) One who proffers something.
Proficience (n.) Alt. of Proficiency
Proficiency (n.) The quality of state of being proficient; advance in the acquisition of any art, science, or knowledge; progression in knowledge; improvement; adeptness; as, to acquire proficiency in music.
Proficient (n.) One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.
Proficient (a.) Well advanced in any branch of knowledge or skill; possessed of considerable acquirements; well-skilled; versed; adept,
Proficiently (adv.) In a proficient manner.
Proficuous (a.) Profitable; advantageous; useful.
Profile (n.) An outline, or contour; as, the profile of an apple.
Profile (n.) A human head represented sidewise, or in a side view; the side face or half face.
Profile (n.) A section of any member, made at right angles with its main lines, showing the exact shape of moldings and the like.
Profile (n.) A drawing exhibiting a vertical section of the ground along a surveyed line, or graded work, as of a railway, showing elevations, depressions, grades, etc.
Profiled (imp. & p. p.) of Profile
Profiling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profile
Profile (n.) to draw the outline of; to draw in profile, as an architectural member.
Profile (n.) To shape the outline of an object by passing a cutter around it.
Profiling (n.) In the construction of fieldworks, the erection at proper intervals of wooden profiles, to show to the workmen the sectional form of the parapets at those points.
Profilist (n.) One who takes profiles.
Profit (n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
Profit (n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
Profited (imp. & p. p.) of Profit
Profiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Profit
Profit (n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
Profit (v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
Profit (v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Profitable (a.) Yielding or bringing profit or gain; gainful; lucrative; useful; helpful; advantageous; beneficial; as, a profitable trade; profitable business; a profitable study or profession.
Profiting (n.) Gain; advantage; profit.
Profitless (a.) Without profit; unprofitable.
Profligacy (a.) The quality of state of being profligate; a profligate or very vicious course of life; a state of being abandoned in moral principle and in vice; dissoluteness.
Profligate (a.) Overthrown; beaten; conquered.
Profligate (a.) Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or vicious; dissolute; as, profligate man or wretch.
Profligate (n.) An abandoned person; one openly and shamelessly vicious; a dissolute person.
Profligate (v. t.) To drive away; to overcome.
Profligately (adv.) In a profligate manner.
Profligateness (n.) The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy.
Profligation (n.) Defeat; rout; overthrow.
Profluence (n.) Quality of being profluent; course.
Profluent (a.) Flowing forward,
Profound (a.) Descending far below the surface; opening or reaching to a great depth; deep.
Profound (a.) Intellectually deep; entering far into subjects; reaching to the bottom of a matter, or of a branch of learning; thorough; as, a profound investigation or treatise; a profound scholar; profound wisdom.
Profound (a.) Characterized by intensity; deeply felt; pervading; overmastering; far-reaching; strongly impressed; as, a profound sleep.
Profound (a.) Bending low, exhibiting or expressing deep humility; lowly; submissive; as, a profound bow.
Profound (n.) The deep; the sea; the ocean.
Profound (n.) An abyss.
Profound (v. t.) To cause to sink deeply; to cause to dive or penetrate far down.
Profound (v. i.) To dive deeply; to penetrate.
Profoundly (adv.) In a profound manner.
Profoundness (n.) The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.
Profulgent (a.) Shining forth; brilliant; effulgent.
-ties (pl. ) of Profundity
Profundity (n.) The quality or state of being profound; depth of place, knowledge, feeling, etc.
Profuse (a.) Pouring forth with fullness or exuberance; bountiful; exceedingly liberal; giving without stint; as, a profuse government; profuse hospitality.
Profuse (a.) Superabundant; excessive; prodigal; lavish; as, profuse expenditure.
Profuse (v. t.) To pour out; to give or spend liberally; to lavish; to squander.
Profusely (adv.) In a profuse manner.
Profuseness (n.) Extravagance; profusion.
Profusion (n.) The act of one who is profuse; a lavishing or pouring out without sting.
Profusion (n.) Abundance; exuberant plenty; lavish supply; as, a profusion of commodities.
Profusive (a.) Profuse; lavish; prodigal.
Progged (imp. & p. p.) of Prog
Progging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Prog
Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.
Prog (v. i.) To steal; to rob; to filch.
Prog (v. i.) To prick; to goad; to progue.
Prog (n.) Victuals got by begging, or vagrancy; victuals of any kind; food; supplies.
Prog (n.) A vagrant beggar; a tramp.
Prog (n.) A goal; progue.
Progenerate (v. t.) To beget; to generate; to produce; to procreate; as, to progenerate a race.
Progeneration (n.) The act of begetting; propagation.
Progenitor (n.) An ancestor in the direct line; a forefather.
Progenitorship (n.) The state of being a progenitor.